#Electric quilt flying geese Patch#

Click the Layer 1 tab at the bottom of your screen.Click Quilt > New Quilt > Vertical Strip QuiltĬheck Clone the Selected Strip and click Add until you have 8 strips.Click the Color tab at the bottom of the screen and color any way that you wish.Use the Pick tool and the Delete key on your keyboard to erase the outside lines.

#Electric quilt flying geese Patch#

Once you have a style you like, click the Convert to Patch tool.

Read more about how the Swath tool works.

Experiment with the Contour, Style, Minimum Width and Boldness to get the look you want.

Click the Applique tab at the bottom of the screen.

>Download Barb Vlack’s project New Block > PatchDraw Block. Take the challenge! See what new and different way you can present Flying Geese!”

They are designed primarily from blocks in the EQ7 block library, though I did design a few of the blocks myself. My two examples have a lot of white negative space in them and offer some non-traditional ways of presenting Flying Geese. It’s really fun to try new ideas and look for more inspiration! If you play with the concept (even if you have no desire to make the quilt you design), you may be approaching my favorite pastime – playing with EQ7 as a video game. Let’s see what we can do with Flying Geese that takes our quilts away from being predictable and ordinary. THE CHALLENGE: Barb Vlack says, “The annual contest theme at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah this year is Flying Geese.